WEST BABYLON, N.Y. — The owner of a New York thermometer factory was sentenced Friday to three years of probation for failing to protect workers who were exposed to hazardous levels of mercury ...

In actuality, this liquid is more often alcohol than mercury. Mercury is toxic, and so would be dangerous should the thermometer bulb break. Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing ...

“Kessler Thermometer Corp. knowingly endangered the lives and health of their employees by ignoring basic safeguards to control hazardous mercury in the workplace and failed to acknowledge its ...